单词 | sorrower |
释义 | sorrowern. A person who sorrows or grieves; a mourner. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > lamenter(s) sorrowfuleOE mournera1425 lamenter1589 sorrower1613 deplorer1687 Jeremiah1781 1613 G. Chapman Epicede sig. D4 (margin) Phillips Master of the Rols and the Princes Chancelor, a chiefe sorrower for him. 1673 J. Glanvill Earnest Invitation Lords Supper vi. 109 For the bare Penitents, and sorrowers for Sin, I advise them to prepare by the Rules following. 1726 A. Hill in R. Savage Misc. Poems & Transl. 98 Take the soft Sorrower at her Word, and try How firmly rooted Female Truth can lie. 1788 F. Burney Diary 19 Nov. (1842) IV. 318 My account..was most meekly received by the most patient of sorrowers. 1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal ii. 19 His wines, that make him for an hour less a sorrower. 1873 F. D. Maurice Serm. preached in Country Churches xxviii. 249 We shall ask that the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, may visit us and visit all the sorrowers of the earth. a1907 F. Thompson in Dublin Rev. (1908) July 32 Grief is a matter of relativity; the sorrow should be estimated by its proportion to the sorrower. 1969 B. Johnson & P. N. Furbank tr. ‘I. Svevo’ Further Confessions of Zeno 85 One should allow all sorrowers the satisfaction—indeed the joy—of exalting their sorrow. 1996 J. T. Hospital Oyster (1997) 299 She is impressed with Mr Prophet, he is such a good weeper, he is such an outstanding sorrower. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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